Saturday, January 3, 2009

Cactus Wireless Triggers (Update 31st Jan)

After having waited for a year to get rich to buy myself a pair or pocket wizard, I have realized that the time wasn't going to come anytime soon. So I plonked my cash for a set of cactus wireless triggers from eBay. The Australian dollar aint doing too well, so the damage came to about 89AUD. This is the price for one transmitter and two receivers.Shipping was free. Heck, they even threw in a flash stand (one of those little base plates you get with the SB series flash)! Well for that price they seem like quite a steal.They should arrive by the weekend. Will post photos and write a detailed review on their range.

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(update)
I have been looking at some flicker pools to pimp these little devices.Do a Google and you will get heaps of informative sites.
Keeping my fingers crossed!
(update)
Received the Kit today(Wednesday) .They shipped it out from Hong Kong on Friday. I am very impressed! Hopefully, I will get some time this week to test them out in terms of range tomorrow. On the D70 they sync at a maximum of 1/800th of a sec. Good enough!


Now for the important question: Whats the Range on these things. Well Ive uploaded the pictures on picassa albums and here is the link:

Radio Trigger test


The triggers work fine upto 40ish feet. Now at each 10 feet, I did 10 fires. Upto 40 feet they worked 10/10 times. So I have fired these 40 times total and I got 40 perfect syncronizations.
Beyond 40. I was getting 6 out of 10 fires. How do we get over this? Use 2 receivers on the same flash! Cheap trick , but it works!

From Radio Trigger test


Connecting it this way , I got 10/10 fires at 50 and the 60 feet mark. For the price they do their job. And I am a very happy customer!

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